Necessity?

It is said that "necessity is the mother of all inventions." I'm not sure that the invention that is pictured above is an actual necessity...but these scissors are pretty nifty and a real time saver when it comes to quickly chopping up fresh herbs. Today I used them to quickly slice chives and also to cut/chop parsley. It is so nice to be able to go out to the gardens and pick items like chives and parsley when needed! I made one of our favorite soups today...Stuffed Spud Soup. One of the base ingredients of this soup in the original recipe is canned cream of chicken soup. Well, since I am trying to avoid canned soups, I made my own cream of chicken soup for the first time and used it for the base of this soup. It worked pretty well and once all the ingredients that one adds to a loaded baked potato (sour cream, chives, cheddar cheese and bacon) top the bowl of potato soup then it didn't taste "much" different from the original recipe...and, definitely healthier for us. Woody walked seven miles early this morning. He did say that it sprinkled on him off and on...but it really started raining quite hard after he got home. We had rain this morning, but the day wasn't totally a wash out. He went to the library and the grocery store. I have had a pretty leisurely day...put away groceries, made soup,looked through patterns for a dress for Abigail, and measured Abigail (and her two sisters!).